The Mess+Noise Magazine

Matching paper to pixel, Mess+Noise magazine was a bi-monthly companion piece to this website. With 10,000 copies distributed around the capital cities of Australia, Mess+Noise magazine is perfect bound, printed on gloss and full of Australia's best young writers, photographers, graphic designers and, of course, musicians.

Mess+Noise magazine is dedicated to showing Australian music in a different and evocative light. Photo essays, art pieces by musicians, inquisitive: Interviews and idiosyncratic reviews: Intermingle throughout the pages. Mess+Noise: definitely not available in the supermarket.

Issue FifteenSeptember - October 2007

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The Dismissal: In this election year why does so little Australian music matter politically?; Kitchens, Bathrooms, Anywhere: As Shiver Like Timber Betony Dircks has let her imagination run free; Storytellers: From five cities on three continents, some of Australia's best songwriters call to talk about the stories behind their music; Deep Water: A night in the studio with Brisbane alt-country duo Texas Tea; Once Upon A Time In The West: When a corporation wanted to stop live music at Perth's Hyde Park Hotel it appeared a done deal; The World's A Stage: The Mess+Noise poster who really could - Muscles - documents what he's seeing these days; The Man Who Would Be King: Tim Rogers has just made "the most depressing record ever put to vinyl" and he couldn't be happier; My Space: A look inside the small worlds that five artists call their very own; Country Sounds: The Smallgoods survived rural bogans and digital despair to make their new album; Second Time Lucky: Damn Arms are happy to be heard and not scene; Break It Down: Sydney's Guns Are For Kids are taking rock & roll to pieces and starting again from scratch; Suicide Solution: The characters and true stories behind 'Lethal Weapons', the just-reissued Australian punk compilation from 1978; The Paper Scissors' Night Out; Charge Group: Sydney's Charge Group will not be rushed; "I Want More Mystery": Spider Vomit's Hannah and Gill explain what makes their band tick; Favourites With Duke Magazine; Almanac: Music for your day with a slew of new releases reviewed, On Play with Adam D Mills and DVDs with Ben Gook; Wish You Weren't Here!

Issue SevenMay - June 2006

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The Gladiator: Russell Crowe Live, Locals In London, Grant McLennan 1958-2006, Iron On in Canada, Pete Wells 1946-2006, Locals In London, DHOP with Always, Indiescribable - Pete Cohen, Sound In Print, Triosk, The Blacklist, Batrider, In The Studio with Ninetynine, Favourites with Princess Tina, HTRK and Witch Hats in Sydney, A Retrospective with The Paradise Motel, Q&A with Bob Evans, Kiosk, On Play with Shane Moritz, Ninetynine: In The Studio.